Example sentences of "we [verb] ourselves [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 2 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ We got ourselves a new ball park , ’ said the man from Detroit . |
| 4 | Before the first series went out we got ourselves an established and admired distributor and waited for the programme sales cash to roll in . |
| 5 | So we got ourselves an Ordnance Survey map for the year of my birth and were able to prove that houses had indeed existed there , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Outside but shadowing the DM , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . |
| 7 | ‘ Outside , but shadowing the Deutschmark , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . ’ |
| 8 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 9 | We wear nurses ' uniforms , perform basic nursing tasks and are still called ‘ nurse ’ by most patients , so sometimes I feel a bit confused by all this and wonder whether we undervalue ourselves a little . |
| 10 | ‘ Why do n't we do ourselves a favour ? ’ she said through her teeth . |
| 11 | During the three year programme we set ourselves a total of 33 remits , of which only 5 remain to be completed . |
| 12 | ‘ We set ourselves the 30,000 target for our 21st birthday — March 1992 , ’ John said . |
| 13 | In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not . |
| 14 | We set ourselves the task of uncovering the principles behind our feeling that certain stretches of language are meaningful and unified : that they have the quality of coherence . |
| 15 | At the comparative safety of a deserted road we collected ourselves a little and then headed for the station , trying hard to chuckle about it all , though obviously we had both been deeply affected . |
| 16 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |
| 17 | Thus the philosophical Greeks and the industrious Chinese will do as instances of non-restriction only on condition that we allow ourselves a strangely overgeneralized view of the Greeks and the Chinese . |
| 18 | It seems to me clear that the answer has to be yes , provided only that we allow ourselves a sufficiently large series of Ks . |
| 19 | The further along the spectrum we find ourselves the more we need knowledge and wisdom to be able to handle the results . |
| 20 | We all regarded medicine as a religion , and we called ourselves the Society of Reason . |
| 21 | We blitzed ourselves a little bit I think you know , back pass we talked about , no back passes , ball gambles and everything , in he goes , two free headers basically . |
| 22 | But we do ourselves no service if we neglect to ask fundamental , difficult questions about our understanding of some of the key issues , processes and terms involved ; if we ignore contradictions in our underlying discourses ; if we fail to grapple with the limitations of our assumptions about pedagogy and how subjects and subjectivities are formed ; and if we fail to notice how economic , political and cultural differentiations are undermining older fixities around the ethnic , class and political identities of the minority communities . |
| 23 | I feel that at 1–0 we gave ourselves a very good chance . |
| 24 | We gave ourselves a mountain to climb and did n't quite make it . |
| 25 | The fact a small region , and we call ourselves a region , that 's how we got the grants , we now see ourselves developing to support our colleagues in and see the need for a strong regional approach which my colleague will mention later . |
| 26 | ‘ We call ourselves the Unifiers — an inner core of trade unionists who are prepared to take a few risks to get what we must for the majority . |
| 27 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 28 | Once we grant ourselves the licence to collect the physical artefacts of software , there remain , at least at first sight , respects in which software is both like , and unlike , traditional museum objects . |
| 29 | ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) . |
| 30 | Now they now said come on let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its |